Zhen Chen
Doctoral Student
Robot, HCI, machine vision, sensor and computing

Introduction

Zhen Chen, doctoral candidate of Information Art and Design, Academy of Art&Design, Tsinghua University, CPC member, Professor-level senior engineer, study from Professor Yingqing Xu.

Zhen Chen graduated from the School of Computer Science Engineering, Beihang University with his bachelor's degree and gain his master's degree from the computer department of Tsinghua University (Interdisciplinary of Information Art & Design). During his university study, as the founder and CEO, he created an artificial intelligence and computer vision technology startup "QfeelTech", it has completed 4 rounds nearly 100 million RMB investiment in total, and became the leader of robot vSLAM technology in China and successfully launched the first generation "Millions produced and explosive" Shark IQ Series robot in North America, 2019. In 2020, it was acquired by the well-known American home appliance brand SharkNinja and served as the company's robot R&D Center in China. As the general manager of this R&D center, Zhen is mainly responsible for the technical research and development, manufacturing, and strategic supply chain of new robot products and new sensors.

Zhen has ever gone to Hsinchu Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and University of Trento, Italy for study and visit, be the participant of the joint project of Microsoft Research Asia. The main research direction is artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction technology research based on robot (such as machine vision, new sensors, positioning and navigation, etc.).

Linkedin page:www.linkedin.com/in/zhen-chen-969595ab/


Previous honors and awards

  • "Haiying Talent" and "Young Eagle Talent" in Haidian District (2016);

  • High-leve leading talents of Zhongguancun "Leading Talent Project" (2017);

  • The 3rd “Internet+” China's Universities‘ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition held by the Ministry of Education, Second Place (2017);

  • "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Special Scholarship of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (2018);

  • Forbes Magazine selected 30 young elites under 30 in Asia (2018);

  • "Young TEEC", a young member of Tsinghua University Entrepreneur Association (2018);

  • Innovation partner of Zhongguancun Science City (2018);

  • Beijing young backbone talent of technology (2019);


Previous publications

  • approach for reducing urban transport energy, ICAE2015-93, 12/2014;

  • 具备感知功能的移动机器人的设计与实现, 04/2018(硕士毕业论文);

  • “FOLO”: A Vision-Based Human-Following Robot, AMCCE 2018, 05/2018;

  • 无人飞行器三维感知算法的研究与实现, 06/2015(本科毕业论文);

  • “机器之眼”,解码视觉感知技术的核心, ISSN2096-5036, 06/2018;

  • A three-dimensional scanning device based on the time of flight method, 201510016158.2, 10/2014;


Zhen Chen
Doctoral Student
Robot, HCI, machine vision, sensor and computing

zhen-che21@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn